Cap for bottle stoppees



(No Model.)

E SA-GHSL GAP FOR BOTTLE STOPBERS.

s67; Patented Jam-22., 1 884.

UNITE STATES EDWARD SACHS,

PATENT OFFIC or DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO SACHS, PRUDEN & 00.,

or SAME PLACE.

CAP FOR IBOTTLE-STOPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,367, dated January 22, 1884.

Application filed December 14, 1883. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD SACHS, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Cap for Bottle-Stoppers, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is designed with special reference to bottles in which the corks or stoppers are held in position by means of several fine wires which are secured about the neck of the bottle, and then twisted or otherwise suitably fastened over the top of the cork itself, for the purpose of preventing the stopper or cork being forced out from its place by the gas within the bottle. Experience has demonstrated the fact that wherefine wire is used-such, for instance, as thatemployedby embedded in the cork, it becomes avery difficult operation to readily and easily release its hold upon the cork. There is also much time employed and trouble occasioned in removing or drawing the stopper or cork from bottles of the class above specified, owing to the fact that the corkscrew very often finds its way either to one side or the other of the cork, when, to do its work effectively and to obtain a firm hold, it should be screwed into the cork directly in its center.

The object of this invention is to overcome these obj ections, and to furnish a neat, cheaply:

manufactured, and durable cap, which is easily and readily applied to bottles, and at the same time may be stamped with any design or inscription the manufacturer or user may see fit.

Thenature of my invention and-the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which I have represented the device in plan in Figure 1,and the same as'applied to a bottle in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3, Fig. 2. v

In the cap A which maybe made of metal corked, placed over the cork.

or any other suitable materialis formed a perforation, B, directly or nearly in its center. The cap'A, which is of a round disklike shape, is, after the bottle is properly It is slightly larger in circumference than the mouth of the bottle, and is so shaped as to fit neatly and snugly above it. Two wires, 0' O, are twisted about one another in such manner as to fit closely aroundthe neck of the bottle. The four ends of the wires are so entwined around each other as to form in effect three wires, which are brought upward and twisted over the cap A, as is well known by those'skilled in the art of co'rking bottles, thereby securely fastening thesame inposition.

It will thus be seen that by using my improved cap there is no longer any liability of the wires becoming embedded in the cork, even should it be forced by the gas within the bot-' tle a slight distance from its proper position.

hVhenit isdesired to remove the cork from p the bottle, the corkscrew is put into the cen tral perforation in the cap A-which serves as a guide therefor--and is then screwed into the cork a sufficient distance to give it a firm hold thereon. The wires are then bent away from about the cap,and the cork,with the cap,is removed from the bottle,when the contents are ready to be poured out.

I would state in conclusion that the caps may be used over and over again so long as they retain proper shape.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cap for bottle stoppers, made of metal or other suitable material, provided with a central perforation, for the purposes hereinbefore described.

2. The combination of the bottle with the centrally-perforated metallic cap a, stopper, and holding-wires, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 12th day of December, 1883, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD SACHS.

\Vitnesses;

WALTER S. WOLLASTON, Gnonen O. WARRINGTON. 

